Applied DNA Sciences Announces that its Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held on August 28, 2014 at 10:00 AM EDT.

Stony Brook, NY (PRWEB) July 11, 2014

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB: APDN), (Twitter: @APDN), a biotechnology firm that provides DNA-based authentication and security solutions and services, today announced that its Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held on Thursday August 28, 2014 at 10:00 AM EDT at the CEWIT in Stony Brook, New York. APDN also announced that its Board of Directors has set the close of business on July 11, 2014 as the record date for determining who may vote at the meeting. All stockholders as of the record date are invited to attend the Annual Meeting where Dr. James Hayward, President and CEO and Ms. Karol Kain Gray, CFO, will discuss the latest accomplishments of the company.

About Applied DNA Sciences

APDN is a provider of botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions and services that can help protect products, brands, entire supply chains, and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature® DNA describes the uncopyable marker that is at the heart of all of our security and authentication solutions. SigNature DNA is at the core of a family of products such as DNAnet®, our anti-theft product, SigNature® T, targeted toward textiles, and digitalDNA®, providing powerful track and trace. All provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.

The statements made by APDN may be forward-looking in nature. Forward-looking statements describe APDN’s future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of APDN. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to our short operating history, limited financial resources, limited market acceptance, market competition and various other factors detailed from time to time in APDN’s SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on December 20, 2013 (amended on May 1, 2014) and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q/A (for the quarterly period ended December 31, 2013) and Form 10-Q. APDN undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.